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'''''BZPower''''' is one of the largest ''[[Bionicle]]'' fansites on the internet. Established in the early 2000's, the site outlived the original franchise, albeit with less activity as time went on. Despite it being less active these days, it’s still a treasure trove of archived threads, fan works, and more, making it a key website for the ''Bionicle'' fandom.
You can check it out [https://www.bzpower.com/ here].
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* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: the forum Completely Off Topic
* [[Apocalypse How]]: In early 2009, a server error caused everything posted on BZPower posted from Sept. 2008 to March 2009 to vanish, and there was much angsting. The event has become known as the [[Fan Nickname|Great Dataclysm]], [[Punny Name|punning]] on the BIONICLE apocalypse, the Great Cataclysm.
** The site
* [[April Fools' Day]]: There's usually some sort of prank, some more elaborate than others.
** One of the most interesting was April Fools 2010, where it was apparent that the staff had split, and were fighting over who would take control of the forums. One of the Administrators was banned, and the discussion topic [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|turned into a roleplay thread as different subforums and groups of members announced their allegiance to one administrator or another.]] It could be pretty well compared to the War Of The Roses, but with raving fanboys instead of knights.
** It was made even better by the fact that after 2 days and nights of an intense forum-wide civil war, one of the admins put a stop to it with an amazing speech and turned the entire thread into a hippie-filled, sandbox-sitting, enemies-turned-friends singalong of Let it Be.
* [[Ban
** [[Double Standard|Except when the mods do it,]] of course.
* [[Contest Winner Cameo]]: There have been lots of contests concerning minor aspects of canon, from designs for minor characters to weapon designs.
* [[Fan Art]]: Has its own forum. Has many examples of [[
* [[Fanfic]]: A few forums are devoted to them, broken down into Epics (chapter stories), Short Stories (one chapter), and Comedies, as well as a Comics forum. As always, [[
** Some members have become downright famous through their stories. At least one, member Lady Kopaka, is reworking her much acclaimed story, Glitch in the System, into an original novel with plans to publish it.
** Many members are well known in the community for their stories. Occasionally referred to as the "Library Demigods." When one such writer, Inferna Firesword, opened a thread for collections of her stories, it reached #2 on the Most Unique Member Posts list for the day. The only time a Library thread ever did so. Inferna was stunned.
** The Comics forum is mainly composed of [[Sprite Comic|Sprite Comics]], featuring artwork from "kits" made in a different forum. [[
* [[Fan Film]]: Two rather large movie endeavors making movies about various portions of Canon are currently deep in [[Development Hell]]. The original project, ''Quest of the Toa'', went through several phases of "existence"<ref>it began, slowed down, came back, disappeared for years, started again from scratch</ref>, but for now, it seemingly settled into another "no visible progress" state. The other, titled ''The Next Generation'', is only slowly crawling along. Neither's advancements can be tracked on BZP currently.
* [[First Post]]: Averted, the words "first to post" is actually filtered to say "Nobody cares about me. I need attention so I wanted to be annoying."
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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Kelly Mc Kiernan, once an administrator/webmaster for the site, was temporarily hired by [[LEGO]] (the makers of ''BIONICLE'') in 2007 to serve as webmaster for the official ''BIONICLE'' site while the then-current webmaster was on maternity leave. Even after the main webmaster returned to work in 2009, he stayed on at LEGO as the toy line's co-webmaster. Has since been moved to other projects, away from ''BIONICLE''.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Purple is a very popular color. When polled on whether or not they'd buy a purple ''[[Hero Factory]]'' set, 95% of the voters, nearly 600 members, said "yes".
* [[RPG]]: The [[
* [[Sailor Earth]]: Making a [[Fan Character]]/Fan Location is made incredibly easy by the fact that most of the Matoran Universe/Bara Magna has been described ''just'' enough, by the fact that very little has been seen in story, and by the fact that the world's internal laws are very well defined.
* [[There Should Be a Law]]: 50% of the members gave themselves signatures of gay kissing to [[Troll|annoy the other 50]]%. The 50% who didn't assumed there was a rule against it. There wasn't.
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*** Actually, it was brought up several times, but the staff reasoned that that was the parents' problem.
**** Which brings us back to the Double Standard trope.
* [[The Shepherd (trope)|The Shepherd]]: Most of the staff functions as [[The Shepherd (trope)|Shepherds]].
** In the Storyline and Theories forum, bonesiii, the former forum leader,
* [[Sure Why Not]]: A surprising amount of [[Canon]] has come from suggestions made by BZPower members.
** However, some fans complain about this, reason being how [[Pandering to
* [[Squee]]: The reaction at large when it was announced Michael Dorn, [[Star Trek:
* [[Troll]]: An incredible amount, although it does take more effort to do so here thanks to the heavy word filter.
* [[Word of God]]: Greg Farshtey kept in close contact with the fandom via BZPower's PM system. Members could ask him questions about pretty much anything, and sometimes he would reveal tidbits of info there before they were made public. He hasn't posted for a very long time now, though.
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